FORCED HONESTY MEME

[devoutish]

1) Post your characters, one per comment
2) Go around with your characters and have them ask other characters questions - anything goes!
3) Forced honesty time! Lying is impossible because of reasons
4) IC DISCUSSION AND CONFRONTATION, GO

Comments

Davesprite

[mrcreamsicles]

[redrooms]

What can I do to make this place easier on you?

[mrcreamsicles]

[Davesprite takes a moment to consider.]

Tell me how I can be of some actual use here. And be gentler when I mess it up.

[nursetemple]

Do I really make you uncomfortable?

[mrcreamsicles]

What? No.

[The confusion is genuine, but the nature of the forced honesty does make him think some more than he might otherwise.]

The whole placebos to try to fix people thing is kind of weird, I guess. It's like lying instead of doing a real thing. But I think I kind of get why, since I tried it with giving Clint some of those pills I found.

[nursetemple]

You seemed uncomfortable when you mentioned pushing your friends down to the floor and I said I'd wrestle you.

As for the pills, there is extensive research that for some, placebos and homeopathy does work. I would link you to all sorts of articles that can be found online, but obviously it's impossible here.
It's not universal, and it definitely depends on the patient's openness to alternative medicines. But if things like acupuncture work, why not the strength of one's spirit?

[mrcreamsicles]

Oh, jegus. No, that's—You're a grown woman, I'm a teenager, I do not need to explore what my hormones would do with that situation. Can we park that conversation far away from the rest of this?

[Please. Please let him salvage some dignity. Thank god for weird medical talk, even if forced honesty means he has to answer a rhetorical question.]

You say 'why not', and I don't actually know. It just seems weird, you know? I've seen a lot of weird shit in life, but I'm not really one for faith. I take what's in front of me, not what I'm told about miracle cures that are just water and sugar pills.

[nursetemple]

Oh. [She so genuinely did not think that was the issue.] Oh, I'm sorry. You're right, that's just...let's not. Yep, parking that very far away.

I have faith, but I don't even think it's about miracles. There is actual scientific research looking into it. Obviously, there are people that firmly believe in the placebo effect and people who don't. I'm fairly neutral on the subject, but if it works for someone, I don't see a reason why they shouldn't keep at it.

[mrcreamsicles]

[BOOP BOOP SUBJECT PARKED.]

If it works for them, then that's probably good for their sake, yeah. I'm just sayin', if it were me, I'd prefer the real thing. I don't want someone to lie to help me—and you say there's research, but I guess it's more the concept that bugs me. The idea.

[nursetemple]

Fair enough. Hopefully, nobody will find it necessary to lie to you anytime soon, about medicine or anything else.